PMI Southwest: How to Grow a Project Manager: Making Professional Development a Project Priority

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Keith Bower VP Professional Development

Keith Bower, Ph.D., serves as Vice President Professional Development for PMI Houston. Under Keith’s leadership, our PD Team is working to offer chapter members new training and certification opportunities that directly support our personal career needs and aspirations. Keith would love to hear how PMI can better support you. His contact information is included below.

Keith has worked in project management on five continents, consulting on over 100 major oil and gas projects and teaching major capital project management. He also consults with leaders and organizations in all sectors helping them lead, manage and serve more effectively across complex cultural differences. Keith is President of Energy Project Coach, LLC (energy) and Syndéo Consulting (culture). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Mathematics. Keith and his wife live in Katy.

Topic Description:Organizations talk a lot about developing their people. But when it comes right down to it, team members are usually assigned not to develop new skills but to apply old ones. On most projects, People Development almost always takes a back seat to Project Delivery. What can leaders do to marry these priorities – to both deliver their projects and develop their people? What can employees do to increase the likelihood that their next project assignment will enhance their existing skills or even impart new skills? In this session, Keith Bower, Ph.D., VP Professional Development, PMI Houston, will share a simple strategy for creating meaningful developmental opportunities on each and every project.

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